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Will We Get a Green Brexit?

Many years ago I failed Latin A Level. My friend Tim and I sat slumbering at the back of a set full of classicists who all - except for us...

The Cricket Field Oak

In winter when I do the washing up I can see the Cricket Field Oak. It's usually through Somerset rain which, as you can see, has left its mark over...

Habitat Restoration

"Make it so", booms Jean-Luc Picard. And snick snack snorum, it is made so. If only life were as simple as it is aboard the USS Enterprise. And if only...

Farmland - Does It Really Matter and What Shoul...

Much interest in Michael Gove's prognostications on farmland subsidies today. This is a really important issue for environmentalists - perhaps more important than you might think. Oddly, most people in...

Back From The Brink ("BftB")

I popped up to Windsor Great Park yesterday for the launch of a project called "Back From The Brink", or BftB. What a fascinating time I had. Daisy and me...

Hedge Planting In The Wet

Hedge and copse scheme, Cambridgeshire. By my reckoning, this bare root planting season the Habitat Aid hedge elves will have planted something over 130,000 plants around the country. There's some...